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(8) ss... 1-800-777-3642 ~ We will meet or beat any nationally advertised price* V School P.0.’s accepted by phone, fax or mail V School Editions ¢ Lab Packs® Networks Site Licenses Circle 136 on Reader Service Card. Apple Il/Macintosh Tax Tempfftey PLUS 57 MORE! DESKTOP VS. WINDOWS HEN I READ THE LETTER “GS Windows” in your February 1993 issue (p. 8), I had to smile. I was truly happy that some people still believe that the Apple Ics can outper- form a 386- or 486-based PC compatible. I bought a GS four years ago because I believed it was the best computer around, and I've upgraded it since then with RAM and so on. Today I'm begin- ning to have doubts, though: I've used a 386/33 machine with Windows — neat as the GS’ Finder, but much faster. My whole 386/33 PC system cost less than $3000 with 4 megabytes of RAM, a 200-megabyte hard-disk drive, and an SVGA card and monitor. PC compatibles 's as have the support of IBM and leading software companies, such as Microsoft, which don’t produce Apple II software. Is there really any hope left for the Apple II, especially the GS? Is it time we realize that it’s all over for the Apple II but for shareware and a few companies? Richard Kuk Millburn, NJ 8 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 ac LETTERS I agree wholeheartedly with Richard Custer’s letter in your February 1993 issue. I've been working with, support- ing, and programming both Apple and PC computers extensively since 1977; in my experience, there hasn’t been one day ever that one or more PCs in my work area haven't “locked up” because of some software or hardware conflict. The PC is attractive mainly because of price. In my estimation, though, people who have to use them become less pro- ductive. The learning curve and ongoing maintenance costs are horrendous. PC windows might as well be painted shut. Thomas Klose Hopatcong, NJ liC EDUCATION SOFTWARE [em AN APPLE IIC. A FRIEND OF mine has a subscription to your mag- ‘ine and told me there are still some companies that make educational soft- ware for the II. Who are they? I want to purchase some programs for my kids. Robert L. Fix Detroit, MI You'll be pleased to know that the Apple II is still a major contender in the home educa- tion and school markets. Start your quest by gathering product and company information from this magazine and from your local Apple I computer club. (Call Apple’s User Group Connection, 800-538-9696 x500, for the location of the one nearest you.) And, if you can get your hands on one, grab a recent Apple II Software newsletter from Apple Computer (20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014, 800-795-1000 x500). — eds. KEEP IT SIMPLE 'STERDAY MY NEW COMPUTER Y ame — a Performa 600CD — so I'm not interested in the Apple II anymore. Mostly, my kids will use the new system for education, along with letter writing and games. Unlike other computer magazines, you seem oriented toward the beginner, and that’s going to be me for some time. Although frequent definition of computer jargon may be off-putting to the experi- enced reader, I suggest that you define terms even more often. For instance, when I was shopping for my Performa, I noticed that Office Depot bundles GreatWorks with the computer, whereas Circuit City includes ClarisWorks. So I reread your December 1991 issue, in which you reviewed GreatWorks (p. 38). In the article you “copy- ruler command.” Huh? Is that some- thing that sets the rules for copying? And what's a “text style”? Overall I've found your magazine quite helpful. Just don’t forget that beginners like myself mention that GreatWorks has a need things spelled out. Mark Berch Silver Spring, MD We won't forget, Mark. But don’t expect much Mac coverage in inCider/A+ — we're mostly an Apple II-oriented publication. Beginning in mid-May, though, keep an eye on newsstands for MacComputing, our new Mac-only magazine for computerists like you. — eds. service GEnie are incorrect: a in our March 1993, issue Since 1984, Sequential Systems has been a leading manufacturer of quality peripheral devices for Apple Il computers and today, we’re still serious about Apple Il. As.a matter of fact, in 1993 Sequential Systems will introduce no less than 9 new hardware and software products, for Apple II & IGS. And not just more memory expansions and hard disk drives but useful and ingenious enhancements in networking, multimedia, telecommunications, and more. Products to help keep you computing with Apple II into the 21st Century! So, next time you talk to your favorite computer/peripherals dealer, ask about Sequential, Systems products. 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MegaBUFF -— A High-Performance, Network Compatible, Print Buffer for ImageWriter //! © L-MegaByte capacity; suitable for IIGS & MAC. © Serial Communications to 57,600 bps High Speed Printer Driver for MAC © AppleTalk Network compatible. © Makes One Printer Look Like Four! 24 #8 SEQUENTIAL SYSTEM. We’re Serious About Apple IT! Circle 52 on Reader Service Card. ALL Sequential ALL Sequential ALL Sequential ‘Systems products Systems products Systems products are include a 2-year prompt include FREE 800- made exclusively in replacement warranty. line technical support. Colorado, USA. Waar’s New By CYNTHIA E. FIELD, PH.D. © CONSULTING EDITOR HAVE MOUSE, WILL TRAVEL armen Sandiego, the famous software heroine, has her own TV show, so it seems only fair that the most popular hypermedia authoring system for the conference, right? The first annual | Apple llcs have at least its own HyperStudio Festival will take place July 8 to 10 at the Hanalei Hotel, San Diego, California. Roger Wagner Publishing, creators of HyperStudio and the convention's sponsor, says the HyperStudio Festival will bring together students, teachers, family users, and other hypermedia enthu- siasts to share what the company (modestly) calls “the ultimate computer-user experience. ” The Festival will include day-long, hands-on workshops on Thursday, with separate sessions for beginning and advanced users. Hourly confer- ences on Friday and Saturday will show you how to get the most out: of multimedia, including how to implement hardware, such as laser- disc players, MIDI devices, scanners, and video cameras and digitizers. Family activities include visits to Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, and Balboa Park. A Friday-night beach party (complete with hot dogs, volley- ball, and a bonfire) is in the works, as well. “Using HyperStudio is both empowering and fun, and we're working to make this one of the most enjoyable and practical confer- ences you'll ever attend,” enthuses Roger Wagner, company president. According to Pam Wagner, compa- ny spokesperson, the Hanalei Hotel is offering a special room rate ($65 plus tax, single or double occupancy) for conference attendees and their families. Admission is $95 for the preconference workshops; the cost of Friday and Saturday sessions is $150 ($125 if you register before April 30). For details, contact Roger Wagner Publishing, 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P, El Cajon, CA 92020, (619) 442-0522, fax (619) 442-0525. he immediacy of television drew each of us into the tragedy of the Exxon Valdez and Persian Gulf oil spills. What child or adult doesn’t remember oil-soaked sea birds struggled to survive and legions of dead fish wafted ashore? But catastrophic as it may be, the after- math of an environmental crisis may carry with it at least one indirect benefit: a revitalized commitment to preserve and protect our natural surroundings. Now thanks to two award-winning multimedia series from Wings for Learning/Sunburst Communications, you can nurture ecological sensitivity among fourth- to eighth-grade students — and help them boost their language- arts, math, sci- ence, and social- studies skills, as well, The Voyage of the Mimi and The Second Voy- age of the Mimi were created by the Bank Street College of Edu- cation with fund- ing provided by the U.S. Depart- ment of Educa- tion and the National Science Foundation. Both series combine video- tapes or, videodiscs and print materials with Apple II software. videotape package is priced at $1399; the videodisc packages are $1695 apiece. The Voyage of the Mimi presents the story of a 72-foot ketch and her crew as Each complete they take to the open sea to study whales. Using Apple II software, children learn about ecosystems, sea mammals, maps, and navigation. In The Second Voyage of the Mimi, the crew embarks on a journey to explore the ancient M: Software titles include Maya Math, Sun Lab, and Scuba Science, in which n civilization in Mexico. 10 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 the inexpressible sadness felt as scores of Mimi's Sun Lab module lets kids explore and record Earth's constantly changing light patterns. students perform real-time experiments, testing environmental variables such as pressure, light, sound, and temperature with special probes attached to the Apple Ile or IIGs. A wealth of extension materials — including Exploring Tidepools and A Field Trip to the Rainforest (two Apple II computer programs), the videodisc Whales, a videotape titled You Can’t Grow Home Again, and The Tropical Rainforests Nature Book — supplement your students’ Mimi explorations. At press time Wings for Learning/ Sunburst Communications announced its “Mimi Voyage to the Future Contest.” To enter, students imagine the ship of their dreams, then create an illustration and write 250 words describing the vessel. Winners will receive a Mimi T-shirt and an autographed picture of Cap- tain Granville, the Mimi’s skip- per. The contest deadline is June 30, 1993. Meanwhile, teachers inter- ested in learning more about the two Mimi series can borrow videotapes on 45-day loan. Each video provides an overview of the Mimi adventure and peeks into classrooms where teachers are using the Mimi curriculum. To request free copies of The Mimi Experience Newsletter and the spring 1993 Mimi catalogue, for pricing infor- mation on accompanying guides and wall charts, or to learn more about these exciting programs, contact Wings for Learning/Sunburst Communications, 1600 Green Hills Road, Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0002, (800) 321-7511, (408) 438- 5502, fax (408) 438-4214. NEW SOFTWARE o MAKE MINE TOLLHOUSE everal new programs from Micrograms Publishing help young students develop decision-making, numeracy, and phonics skills A stint in Granny Apple- bee's Cookie Factory, for example, isn’t exactly a piece of cake. Children in grades 3 to 6 discover that managing a cookie factory means choosing @ coaoae aerectes'|| © Granny Applebee gives kids a taste of real economics. Hugo Hound introduces little ones to phonics. ingredients, measuring them, baking cookies, repairing equip- ment, prioritizing order ship- ments, and paying bills. The bottom line? For $44.95 kids get a taste of the real world. Younger children (grades 1 to 3) practice the four basic arithmetic functions of addi- tion, subtraction, multiplica- tion, and division with Elmo, Roxie, Spike, and “Sticks” McCoy, those rhythmic reptiles featured in Dancing Dinos ($34.95), Uncle Clyde’s Consonant Slides ($49.95) and Hugo Hound's Vowel Sounds ($34.95) are phonics programs designed to help preschoolers and first-graders : identify beginning and ending consonants and short and long ! Who's Mucking up the t Environment? are priced at ' $45 each. vowel sounds. In the four . activities included in each pro- gram, Uncle Clyde and his bay- ing hound, Hugo, put on slide shows challenging children to choose the correct target sound. To learn more about the programs or to acquire free 30-day preview versions, contact Micrograms Publish- ing, 1404 North Main Street, Rockford, IL 61103, (800) 338-4726, (815) 965-2464, fax (815) 965-8456. Circle number 350 on the Reader Service card for more information. o ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS lom Snyder Productions’ free spring/summer 1993 catalogue features three new 64K Apple Il products for students in grades 4 through 12. Most kids already have a nose for news {not always the right kind), but programs in the Super Scoops series can transform youngsters into investigative reporters as they toil in a simulated newsroom in pursuit of two front-page } stories: one about a blood } transfusion gone awry, another about a serious local pollution problem, In each Super Scoops simu- : lation, students track 20 : sources and select from 40 potential interviews before i writing news articles based on } the information they've gath- ! ered. A built-in clock simulates | the pressure of working against a tight deadline. (Hey, kids, take it from us — this is really fun.) Scoop I: The Case of the Bad Blood and Scoop II TSP has also released two new products in the respected Decisions, Decisions series. The Environment Il: Preserving What We Have Left is a sequel to the company's popular sim- ulation about pollution at the local swimming hole; students debate the merits of devoting a large tract of wilderness to public enjoyment or using the land for resource development. AIDS: Relationships and Responsibility stimulates discussion about sexually transmitted diseases, risky behavior, teenage pregnancy, and discrimination. The Environment || and AIDS are priced at $149.95 each. For more information, contact Tom Snyder Productions, 80 Coolidge Hill Road, Watertown, : MA 02172-2817, (800) 342- 0236, (617) 926-6000, fax game might remind you of checkers, but instead of red and black markers you play with ants. The game pits your red ants against the computer's black ones; the object is to kill all the black ants by walling them off with red ants on two sides. Ant Wars features four levels of difficulty and a “berserker ant” function in which random red ants single- handedly (single-leggedly?) cannibalize black ants. Problem is, berserker ants Rumors spread throughout the school. el ic] Decisions, Decisions: AIDS gets kids thinking and talking about the consequences of risky sexual behavior. (617) 926-6222, or circle number 353 on the Reader Service card. a ANT ALERT yu" probably want to can- cel your summer picnic plans after playing Karl Bunker's new shareware diver- sion Ant Wars. At first blush, } this $10 Apple lies board also kill their own kind. Ant Wars is available through the usual shareware channels (America Online, GEnie, and public-domain software libraries). You can also order the game directly from Karl Bunker, 59 Parkman Street, Brookline, MA 02146. For more information, circle number 354 on the Reader Service card. May 1993 inCider/A+ * 11 WHAT'S NEW ° REAL-WORLD CONCERNS: dmark Corporation has served students with special needs for more than 20 years. That tradition continues with the release of Edmark Functional Word Series Software. These four units — Signs Around You, Fast Food/Restaurant Work, Grocery Words, and Job/Work Words — use a sight-word approach to teach vocabulary for independent living. Each unit contains 100 words and phrases targeted to adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities or students for whom English is a second language. Computer activities feature hi-res graphics and human-quality voice. The software's Call Your Teacher function activates Fast Food/Restaurant Work teaches vocabulary for independent living. whenever a student takes too long to answer a question or responds incorrectly a speci- fied number of times. Each unit includes ten disks, a Teacher's Guide, repro- ducible record-keeping forms, and 300 student worksheets. The software requires 128K, a color monitor, one 5.25- or 3.5-inch disk drive, and an Echo speech synthesizer. It supports keyboard, TouchWindow, and single- switch devices. Each unit in the series costs $179; 12 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 APPLE } you can purchase all four for $649. For additional informa- tion, contact Edmark, P.O. Box 3218, Redmond, WA 98073-3218, (800) 426- 0856, (206) 566-8400, fax (206) 861-8998, or circle number 359 on the Reader Service card. on NEW PD CATALOG he National AppleWorks Users Group has announced its 1993 Public Domain Catalog, with 80 pages describing more than 200 disks (50 of them new), according to NAUG president Dr. Warren Williams. Among : them you'll find utilities, fonts, i graphics, and AppleWorks | templates for home, school, and business. The 1993 NAUG Public Domain Catalog costs $5, but you'll receive a $2 rebate with your first order. For more information, contact the National Apple- Works Users Group, Box 87453, Canton, MI 48187, (313) 454-1115, fax (313) 454-1965, BBS (615) 359-8238, or circle number 355 on the Reader Service card. a STACK ATTACK pple lies hypermedia authors can draw inspira- tion from three new stacks offered by the HyperStudio Network. Jim Hirsch’s HyperSounds Volumes 3 and 4 include dozens of HyperStudio-ready sound effects and musical clips. David Pollock's Periodic AsPeP Loe Ios (1 <é File Edit Windows View isk Special Color Extras ) Chevs salem real Font.Foctory.68 Drive. (ey) System.Setup Desk foes a Bl sath a & Tools Hord ProvOS —32items 19.6 MBused 658K free i A ane Works | | Prodos BASIC System Te en Toons Graphi m The.Hanager -Posel +] or 1303) | The Manager offers Multi der-style convenience, with multiple open applications. Elements helps students : master the basics of physical science and chemistry. This computerized version of the periodic table includes histori- cal information about each element as well as its symbol, number, and mass. Each stack disk costs $15 for HyperStudio Network members; $20 for non- members. For more informa- tion, contact the HyperStudio Network, Box 103, Blawen- burg, NJ 08504, (609) 466- 3196, fax (609) 466-1085, or circle number 358 on the | Reader Service card. a GS MULTITASKER f you're a GS user suffering the pangs of Mac or | Windows envy, Seven Hills | Software may have a cure: | The Manager, which the company calls “the first and only true MultiFinder for your Apple lis.” The product of a two-year collaboration between Seven Hills and BrainStorm Soft- ware, The Manager lets you keep multiple applications open on the desktop simultaneous- ly, It’s uncanny to work in a Teach window, say, and be able to see the Finder in the back- | ground. As you move from one program to another, the active application’s menu bar comes to the fore and displaces that of the program you just used. (Look for a review of The Manager and Switch-It!, Sequential Systems’ GS application switcher, in an upcoming issue.) The Manager carries a suggested retail price of $69.95 and requires an Apple liGs with a minimum of 2 megabytes of RAM (4 mega- bytes recommended). A hard drive isn’t required, but power users will want one for maxi- mum efficiency. To increase your GS productivity, contact Seven Hills Software, 2310 Oxford Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304-3930, (904) 575- 0566, or on line at SevenHills (America Online and GEnie) or 75300,1743 (CompuServe). Circle number 351 on the Reader Service card for more information. o MACRO ECONOMICS ingwood Micro Software . released Texas Il on Disk: Volume 3, a disk- based publication featuring news, reviews, special offers from AppleWorks developers, and TimeOut accessories, macros, and fonts. One look at the Volume 3 directory (and its several sub- directories) will convince even the most frugal AppleWorks user that this resource is well worth a personal perusal. ‘Among other offerings, Volume 3 includes an updated version of TimeOut Mousetext, 1993 calendars, macros including Terminator 4 (for quitting AppleWorks without saving any files), a quiz-writing module, a special font for 5.25-inch disk labels, and a database listing nearly 1200 type $C8 (“GS”) fonts arranged in categories such as Old English, Western, and Pictures, Icons, and Dingbats. (The fonts themselves are available from the company separately.) Texas Il on Disk: Volume 3 costs $8.50. AppleWorks 3.0 and Ultra 4.1 are recommended. You can order the disk from Kingwood Micro Software, 2018 Oak Dew, San Antonio, TX 78232, (210) 490-6373. For more information, Australia, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and South- east Asia. Apple llGs Clip-Art Maps works with any super-hi-res graphics program, including HyperStudio, The Print Shop lics, and a variety of GS paint programs. At a suggested retail price of $49.95, the collection comes on five 3.5- inch disks and includes a map directory. For more information, contact Bruce Jones Design, 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 10608, Boston, MA 02116, (800) 843-3873, (617) 350- 6160, fax (617) 350-8764, or circle number 357 on the Reader Service card. on TRADE-IN, TRADE-UP ne company widely known O:. its support of special needs students is Laureate Learning Systems. Company president Mary Sweig Wilson, toward any new program. The Trade-In Policy means you can more easily afford programs that meet your current needs. The company's Trade-Up Special lets you return any Apple lle program and receive a new Apple liss, Macintosh, or IBM PC version of the same program for a nominal fee. Not sure which program you'd like? Call the company to arrange a free 30-day preview. At press time Laureate Learning Systems had also announced four new Apple lics products: Negation ($150), Plurals ($150), and Prepositions ($150) in the company's Early Emerging Rules series, and Twenty Categories ($200), a program focusing on more than 300 nouns, with three activities that help students test their categorization prowess. (Shipping charges are $5 per order plus $2.50 per item.) All four programs should be available by the time you circle number 356 on the Reader Service 1 card, 2 3 a GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE By Jones Design is now offering Apple llcs Clip-Art: Maps, a collection of more than 300 color and black-and-white maps in super-hi-res format. This GS product combines in one package three of the company's popular Macintosh clip-art collections: World Maps, USA State-by-State, and World Hot Spots, with maps of every state, the U.S., and all major regions of the world, including Africa, Asia, Uhich one is a bird? juice a parrot an apple Ph.D., recently announced a unique program that lets you send back any Laureate soft- ware you no longer use and receive new software in exchange. Through the company's Trade-In Policy you receive a 50-percent credit for any Apple |! program you return; } you can apply the credit read this. For more information, contact the company at 110 East Spring Street, Winooski, VT 05404-1897, (800) 562-6801, (802) 655- 4755, or circle number 360 on the Reader Service card, 5 GO FIGURE F‘ new arithmetic programs in the Problem Solving series from William K. Bradford Publishing are designed to help students in grades 3 to 8 master practical computation skills. Questions focus on real- world math problems involving whole numbers, addition and subtraction of fractions, multiplication and division of fractions, decimals, and ratio and percentage. Each program presents 100 problems, many with vivid graphics. An optional calcu- lator is available on screen. William K. Bradford's Problem Solving series includes a new program devoted to developing kids’ ratio- and percentage- calculation skills. Help for teachers is also included: You can track student progress through a built-in management system. Each of the five titles, which require 128K and one 5.25- or 3.5-inch disk drive, is available at a school price of $60. Bundles, lab packs, network versions, and district licenses are also available. Schools qualify for a free 30-day preview. To learn more about the Problem Solving series, contact William K. Bradford Publishing Company, 310 School Street, Acton, MA 01720, (800) 421-2009, (508) 263-6996, fax (508) 263-9375, or circle number 361 on the Reader Service card. May 1993 * inCider/A+ + 13 APPLE CLINIC WORD AND IMAGE The accent’s on graphics this month as Apple IIs capture the moment on screen and in print. BY CYNTHIA E. FIELD, PH.D. IN A GIF-FY HAVE LOADS OF GRAPHICS THAT I created on my Apple IIGs. Is there any way I can use these illustrations with a Macintosh? We have Mac LCs at school. I have no problem transferring word-processing data to the Mac via Apple File Exchange. But try as I might, I can’t seem to get any of my Mac programs to recognize graphics files from the GS. Bill Edwards Sembach Middle School Germany There are a number of ways to get your graphics from the Apple liGS to the Mac or PC (or to move in the reverse direction), but perhaps the easiest, cleanest, and most-versatile way is to use GIF (graphios- interchange format), a universal “graphics language” that all three computers under- stand. Some years ago, CompuServe — most widely known as an on-line information service — created GIF so that personal- computer users of all persuasions could share clip art and other types of illustra- tions. And, as an added benefit, GIF files are compressed: Redundant series of pixels, which often comprise a picture — an all- blue sky, for instance — are expressed compactly in a GIF file, which thereby takes up much less room on disk and much less time to send over a modem than the original version. Programs that recognize GIF files are available for virtually all personal computers, including Apple liGSes, Macs, and PCs. 14 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 Arguably the best programs for GIF file conversion are SuperConvert for the GS, by Jason Harper (available from Seven Hills Software), and a $40 shareware title for the Macintosh, GIFConverter, by Kevin A. Mitchell. | downloaded GlFConverter from America Online, but it’s also available else- where. Like most shareware authors, Mitchell lets you try the program (for 15 days, in this case) before you pay the registration fee. If you do a lot of work with multiplatform graphics, the small invest- ment will pay for itself in no time. Forging links between any two machines, however, not only requires GIF converters for each, but also a way to exchange files. Fortunately, IGS System 6 includes soft- ware modules known as FSTs (file-system translators), which recognize Mac disks automatically. (if you aren't using System 6, you should be.) Your Mac's system disks include the program Apple File Exchange, which lets you transfer both ProDOS and MS-DOS (IBM PC and compatible) files to your Macintosh. In a nutshell, the process of translating and transporting a picture from the GS to the Mac goes like this: 4. On your GS, use SuperConvert to load your Apple Il picture (whether hi-res, double hi-res, or super hi-res, created on a lle/c or a GS) and convert it to a GIF file. 2. Save the resulting GIF file directly on a Mac floppy disk if you're using GS System 6 and have the HFS (hierarchical file structure) FST installed in your IGS system. Go on to step 3 2a. If you don’t have System 6 on your GS, save the SuperConvert GIF file on a ProDOS disk. Then use your Mac's Apple File Exchange program to transfer the GIF file from the ProDOS disk to a Mac floppy- or hard-disk-based file. 3. Use GiFConverter on the Macintosh to decode the GIF file into the Mac graphics format you prefer. (Note that some Mac graphics programs contain a GIF file converter as a Load As option on the File menu, so you may not need GlFConverter.) To go from the Apple IIGs to the PC, the process is similar: 4. As in steps 1 and 2 above, use Super- Convert to translate and store the original Apple Il picture as a GIF file on a Mac disk directly, or on a ProDOS disk; it doesn’t matter which disk format you use in this process. 2. On your Mac, use Apple File Exchange to transfer the GIF file from the Mac or ProDOS disk to an MS-DOS (PC-based) floppy disk. 3. On your PC, use Hijaak or a similar converter to decode the GIF file into the PC graphics format you prefer. GRAPHICS RESOURCES GiFConverter 2.x Kevin’. Mitchell P.O, Box 803066 Chicago, IL 60680-3066 $40 plus’$5 shipping in U.S., 810 shipping outside U.S. includes latest version, print documentation, shareware registration fee shareware version available on CompuServe, GEnie, America Online Hijaak Inset Systems Inc. 71 Commerce Drive Brookfield, CT 06804-3405 (203) 740-2400 (203) 775-5634 fax $249 SuperConvert 3.01 Seven Hills Software Corp. 2310 Oxford Road | Tallahassee, FL 32304-3930 i) (904) 575-0566 | (904) 575-2015 fax | SEVENHILLS (Genie, America Online) | 75300,1743 (CompuServe) | $39.95 Meserin, dug, 199) AAA ow i, S VERSION 2.0 NOW WITH SPELL CHECKER, EMS SUPPORT, GRAPHICS, PCX DISPLAY, AUDIO SUPPORT, AND MUCH MORE. | WHAT ARE THE EXPERTS SAYING? | | “MS-DOS APPLEWORKS' “inCidet/A+ 8/97" | | What do you say to an MS-D08 clone’ of Appleworks 307 Remarkable | Technologies SUPERWORKS ($199), has cused more than one double; | take cround here, SUPERWORKS funchon like Appleworks On any BM PC | except that ts foster, you use Appleworks and con tain you fhaers 10 \ fod their way around an ee Cea ale SUPE! nS | even incorporates some: res for whict users poy extra. Joicick inCider Magazine, Nevernber 1991 \ Miami Herald/Craig Crossman 8/12/91 : | "Known oS SUPERWORKS, this Appleworks clone does almost everything Appiewoxks does and more. if you know how to use Appleworks, you \ can use SUPERWORKS without picking up a manual, SUPERWORKS brings the functionality of Appleworks fo the MS-DOS word while leaving ga many jimitations,” St BRIDGING THE GAP F- SUPERWORKS BRINGS APPLEWORKS FUNCTIONALITY TO THE PC INTEGRATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PC USERS Remarkable Technologies announces a breakthrough product which now delivers AppleWorks power on an IBM PC or compatible. SuperWorks lets AppleWorks users step up to a PC with AppleWorks files, utilizing an Appie- Works work-alike integrated package. New features provide full & cornpiete integration of all capabilities including: spreadsheet (3-D capability), database (the easiest to use and one of the most powerful anywhere), word processing with spell checker, improved commu- nications package, new and improved graphics, new SWAT macros, the best in the industry and much more. SuperWorks uses only 180K on diskette and it's the only integrated package developed for the notebook. As a special introductory offer to inCider readers, SuperWorks is now available at the special low price of $199.00. SuperWorks has a regular retail price of $406:60 BLENTIRE PROGRAM USES ONLY 180K ON DISKETTE @ ONLY INTEGRATED PACKAGE FOR NOTEBOOKS 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE CSS CARD NUMBET SIGNATURE Eh 3 2" Reade Service Card, CHNOLOG, aS ‘ HES, 245 p R EGAS FOR Techy US AVE: IN NUE, ICAL INFORMATION. ee NJ 0764 LINE OLITI SS EMARKABiE TE Mail to: Remarkable 45 Pegasus Ave., Dept.M593, Northvale, New Jersey 97647-9971 7 «10.0, RDER AX: 207-767 yas APPLE CLINIC YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES WENT TO A COMPUTER SHOW A few weeks ago and was amazed to see a PC product that lets you use a video camera to freeze a human facial image on the monitor. Among other things, you can change hair color and style and then record the image on VHS tape. Can any Apple IIGs product do the same thing? Mel D. Acklin Leesville, LA You bet. In fact, Mel, there are several ways to accomplish similar results. The easiest is to invest in one of Digital Vision's reasonably priced ComputerEyes digitizers. A digitizer is a circuit board that converts a video image — from a cam- corder, videocassette tape, or still-video camera — into a digital picture you can display on the computer screen. You can save images on disk and edit them with Apple II or lIGS paint programs. Among other things, you can incorporate edited images into desktop publications or video- taped presentations, such as school year- books. A black-and-white version of ComputerEyes is available for the Apple lle and lIGS. The company’s color digitizer works only with the GS. ComputerEyes versions for the Apple Il are classified as slow-scan digitizers. (By contrast, Digital Vision offers both less-expensive slow-scan and the more-expensive frame-grabber digitizers for Macintosh computers.) How does it work? First, attach your camcorder to the Apple Il with a standard video-camera cable. Next, focus the cam- corder on your subject. Slow scanning requires that the subject remain still for about six seconds. Likewise, if you want to convert videotape images to graphics files, you need a good-quality pause function on your VCR. As you may know, the quality of the video image tends to deteriorate when you use the pause button on some less-expensive VCRs. For best results, use still-video cameras, including those made by Canon, Kodak, and Sony. Because it's essentially a frame grabber, a still-video camera is a nice match for a slow-scan digitizer. Still-video cameras typically cost more than $1000, though. If you have neither a camcorder nor a still-video camera, you can use a scanner to 16 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 convert flat artwork, such as drawings or photographic prints, to computer graphics. ThunderScan, LightningScan GS, and Quickie are three popular scanners for the Apple Il ThunderScan requires an ImageWriter printer. You replace the printer-ribbon cartridge (temporarily) with the Thunder- Scan unit. Then you roll a photo (or other piece of artwork) into the printer. As the scanner moves back and forth across the advancing photograph, ThunderScan soft- ware converts the photographic image one pass at a time to a graphics image, which “develops” on the computer screen. By contrast, LightningScan and Quickie are hand-held scanners, which you drag across a drawing or photo on a table or desktop. It scans the image and replicates it on the computer screen. Scanning soft- ware is included in each package. Quickie supports the Apple lle or IlGs; Lightning- Scan is a GS-only product. You can use a paint program to do touch-ups, rid art- work of defects, or further embellish an image any way you'd like. Whether you use a digitizer, a scanner — or neither — it costs no more than a few dollars to record on videotape anything that appears on your Apple Il screen. Play- ers who score big-time in a computer game can tape a picture of the awards cere- mony. Artists of all ages can videotape electronic galleries to show off their graphics creations. Teachers can design video presentations to enrich lesson plans — or to use as demonstration videos on parents’ night. The possibilities are as unlimited as your own imagination. It's easy and inexpensive to attach a videocassette recorder to your Apple II because the computer's video output is already NTSC (National Television Stan- dards Committee) compatible. This built- in capability saves Apple Il users hundreds of dollars compared with what Macintosh or PC users must spend to convert AGB or VGA signals to NTSC. Use a male/male RCA-type cable to connect the composite-video port on your Apple Il to the video in port on the VCR. If you use a monochrome or composite-color monitor, you'll need an inexpensive Y-adapter so that you can attach your monitor and VCR simultaneously to the Apple Il. Now turn on the VCR, insert a blank tape, start your computer, and launch your graphics program, game, or other software. When the display you want to capture appears on screen, press the VCR's record button. Time the presentation and press the VCR's stop button when you're done. That's all there is to it. The nice thing about videotapes is that you can share your creations with anyone who has a VCR — he or she doesn’t need a computer. (For more about video options, see “Big Picture Show,” November 1992, p. 34.) FOCUS ON VIDEO PRODUCTS ComputerEyes Digital Vision, Inc. 270 Bridge St. Dedham, MA 02026 (800) 346-0090 (617) 329-5400 (617) 329-6286 fax $129.95 b/w (lle/GS) $249.95 color (GS only) LightningScan GS, $295 ThunderScan, $21 requires ImageWriter printer Thunderware 21 Orinda Way Orinda, CA 94563 (800) 628-0693 orders only (610) 254-6581 (610) 254-3047 24-hour fax Quickie Vitesse, Inc. P.O. Box 929 13909 Amar Road Suite 2A La Puente, CA 91747-0929 (800) 777-7344 (818) 813-1270 (818) 813-1273 fax $29! Apple Iifics iOLE! Y KNOWLEDGE OF RECENT Apple II developments has fallen behind during my four-year stay in Argentina and Chile. I create vocabulary tests and need to generate Spanish- language characters. Is there a way to get these characters on the Ie, IIc, or IGS? Or will I have to go to the Macintosh Wendell Hall Wallsburg, UT Noh. Non. Nein. No way! Depending on the software you prefer, the Apple Il can generate the characters you needl. If you already use AppleWorks 3.0, consider EuroWorks, an enhancement that adds foreign-language capability to the Apple- Works word-processor module. EuroWorks Stretch your disk space. then on HardPressed handles everything auto- matically as you save or open your documents and We all know that creating disk space isn’t quite this easy. That's why WestCode Software is introducing H ARD applications. And, because it's completely integrated HardPressed™ the ultimate in disk compression PRE Gar | l into the GS/OS file system, HardPressed is much software for the Apple Iics. It virtually doubles the ss faster and easier to use than any other disk space on any type of disk, including hard disks, compression product. 3.5" diskettes, and RAM disks, without doubling All this for only $69.95. And, if you've already your investment in hardware. purchased another disk compression product, you can still HardPressed is a totally transparent, fully automatic trade up to the unbeatable performance of HardPressed for solution to your storage problems. It provides true on-the-fly only $19.95. To find out more about HardPressed, just give compression and decompression of files. Just specify which us a call. 1-800-448-4250, files, folders or disks you'd like to keep compressed and from WestCode Software, inc., 15050 Avenue of Science, Suite 112, Sen Diego, CA $2128 (619) 487-9200 Fax (619) 487-9255 * (800) 448-4250. famems © HordPressed requires an Apple llss with a minimum of 1.25 MB RAM and GS/OS System 6. All brand and product names are trademarks of their respective MestSe42 companies, and you know who they are. © 1993 WestCode Software, Inc. Circle 99 on Reader Service Card. APPLE CLINIC UPDATE ON HANDSHAKE OPTIONS v Morgan Davis, developer of the BBS program ProLine, points out that the information in “Ground Control to Major Tom" in the February 1993 edition of Grapevine (p. 20) is only par- tially correct. In that column, we said that GS owners of Hayes-compatible external modems must set all hand- shake options to no via the Control Panel. Davis says that information applies only to 1200- and 2400-baud modems. For higher-speed 9600- and 14.4K-baud modems, Apple Computer recommends using a special high- speed modem cable that provides true hardware handshaking, carrier-detect, and DTR (data-terminal ready) features. It's currently available from Morgan Davis Group (10079 Nuerto Lane, Rancho San Diego, CA 91977- 7132, 619-670-0563, $14.95 plus $3 shipping) or InTrec Software (3035 East Topaz Circle, Phoenix, AZ 85028- 4423, 602-992-5515, $15 plus $3 shipping). CROSSING THE GOLDEN GATE Y If you're going to San Francisco for Apple Expo West in late April, make sure you call the Guideboard BBS at (415) 864-3858 (300-/1200-/2400- baud service) for some tourist informa- tion you probably won't find in any guidebook. Operated for the past six years by San Francisco cab driver Richard Schwartz, the Guideboard is filled with recommendations of great and inexpensive restaurants and nightspots that cater to San Francisco natives. Whether you're interested in dim sum or Dungeness crab, jazz clubs or blues saloons, don’t leave home before consulting the Guideboard. ACCESSORIZE WV If you still start your GS from 3.5-inch floppies and don’t have quite enough disk space to add desk acces- sories, you can always free up some additional room by deleting an unneces- sary file from your System.Setup folder. On a backup copy of your System.Disk, open the System/System .Setup folder. If you own a ROM 01 GS, you can safely delete the TSS file to get an extra 41K of storage. If you have a ROM 3 GS, you can erase the TS2 file to gain another 37K. KEY TRICKS UV Hold down the option key while selecting About AppleWorks GS from the Apple pull-down menu in that program, and you'll discover some useful information about your system. UV Ina number of desktop-based GS/OS applications, including Apple- Works GS, the Finder, HyperStudio, and Platinum Paint, holding down three keys simultaneously — Open apple, Control, and 2 — brings up a screen listing the names of the people who created the program. U The engineers who built the GS left their mark on the machine: a hidden Easter egg. To activate a screen show- ing the names of the designers involved in the GS project, start your computer without any disks in the drives; when you see the error message Check startup device and an apple sliding back and forth across the screen, hold down the open-apple, option, control, and N keys simultaneously. UV While using the Finder with the Apple liGs' System 6.0, you can close all the open windows by holding down the open-apple, option, and W keys simultaneously. V If you suspect @ hardware problem with your lle, llc, or GS, try invoking the system's built-in self test before panicking. First, remove any disks from your drives. With the power on, hold down four keys simultaneously: Open apple, Option, Control, and Reset. Then lift your finger off the reset key. The computer will run a set of diagnostics for about a minute. If your system passes the self-test, it will inform you. If any cryptic messages appear, though, it’s time to bring your computer in for repair. — Joe Kohn, Contributing Editor GRAPEVINE IS A MONTHLY COLUMN OF ON-LINE HINTS, TIPS, ARGUMENT, CHAT, AND GOSSIP. CONTACT JOE KOHN AT JOKO (AMERICA ONLINE), 76702,565 (COMPU- SERVE), KOHN (GENIE), OR 76702.565 (@COMPUSERVE.COM OR JOKO@AOL.COM (INTERNET). supports French, German, Italian, Portu- guese, and Spanish Tutor-Tech, another Apple |I-family program, supports the entire Mac inter- national character set. To generate an é, for example, press Option-u and type e. Option-u creates the umlaut above the e. Tutor-Tech isn't a word processor per se; rather it's an authoring system that lets teachers create interactive lessons. Moreover, Tutor-Tech can track students’ progress via a built-in score-keeping feature. On the GS, you can create foreign- language characters if you use an authentic 16-bit GS program, such as AppleWorks GS, and the Geneva font or another type- face that includes the extended characters you need. Pull down the Apple menu, and choose the General control panel. Make sure that translation is set to Standard {not None). Use the option key (or shift- option combination) followed by the appro- SAY Si Si AppleWorks 3.0, $249 AppleWorks GS, $299 Claris Corporation 5201 Patrick Henry Drive P.O. Box 58168 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8168 (800) 325-2747 nearest dealer (408) 727-8227 customer relations EuroWorks 3.0 S.A AuTeur Co. P.O. Box 7459 Beaverton, OR 97007 (603) 645-2306 $42 French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese package $27 each French or Spanish only requires AppleWorks 3.0 GraphicWriter IM! 1.1 Seven Hills Software Corp. 2310 Oxford Rd. Tallahassee, FL 32304-3930 (804) 575-0566 (804) 575-2015 fax SEVENHILLS (GEnie, America Online) 75300,1743 (CompuServe) $149.95 $60 competitive upgrade contact the company for details KeyCappers The Diskette Gazette International Datawares 2278 Trade Zone Blvd. San Jose, CA 95131-1801 (800) 222-6032 (800) 322-9331 fax orders Tutor-Tech Hypermedia Toolkit 2.7 Techware Corp. P.O. Box 151085, Altamonte Springs, FL 32715-1085 (800) 34-REACH (407) 695-9000 $195 18 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 priate QWERTY key to generate the accents and any other characters you want. How do you know which keys to press? GS System 6 offers additional resources, including Special Aids: Video Keyboard. This replica of the GS keyboard pops up on screen when you select Video Keyboard from the Apple menu. Although AppleWorks GS doesn't support Video Keyboard (or other Special Aids), programs such as GraphicWriter Il do. GraphicWriter Ill is perhaps more widely known as a page- layout program than as a word processor, but don’t let that keep you from using it to design handouts and worksheets. The second way to remember the key combinations you need to press to gener- ate extended characters is to keep the keystrokes literally at your fingertips. | use transparent, self-adhesive labels called KeyCappers on my Mac and GS keyboards. A glance at the keyboard reminds me of the keys | need to press to generate all kinds of accents and symbols. KeyCappers labels are designed to fit the Mac's keys, but a little trimming with a razor blade will fit them to the GS’ keys, as well. A BIG PLUS ANY PEOPLE DON’T KNOW M that you can run AppleWorks 3.0 onan Apple II Plus. You can, thanks to Plus-Works, which reconfigures the AppleWorks startup disk and substitutes escape-key commands for the left and right cursor keys and open-apple com- mands. Will you tell the rest of the Apple II world about this program? Joseph A. Homsher Cerritos, CA Listen up, world — it’s easier than you think to modernize a 48K Apple Il Plus to run the latest version of Claris’ popular integrated word-processor/database/ spreadsheet program. In addition to Apple- Works 3.0 and Plus-Works 3.1, you need only three extras to bring that so-called “obsolete” system up to snuff: © Shift-key modification. The Plus-Works manual explains how to perform this do-it- yourself quick fix. In a nutshell, you con- nect a piece of wire from the shift-key pin of the Apple Il Plus keyboard to the button- eelelelelelfelrelfelrel UPDATING THE II PLUS AppleWorks 3.0 Claris Corporation 5201 Patrick Henry Drive P.O, Box 58168 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8168 (800) 325-2747 nearest dealer (408) 727-8227 customer relations Plus-Works 3.1 Memory Plus Distributors 7902 East Pierce St. Scottsdale, AZ 85257 (602) 820-8819 (602) 968-3916 (602) 968-3211 fax 2 pin of the computer's game-paddle I/O (input/output) port. It's even easier than it sounds and requires only inexpensive lead clips, which you can purchase at your local Radio Shack store. A shift-key modifica- tion lets you generate both upper- and lower- case characters on the Apple II Plus. * An 80-column card. With an 80-column card you can display twice as many char- acters on one line as you could otherwise in native 40-column mode. * Additional RAM (random-access memory). With the appropriate add-in memory board you can increase the Apple Il Plus’ RAM to 128K or even 1 megabyte. According to Plus-Works' developer, Richard Hajdu, a 128K memory card installed in an Apple Il Plus provides an AppleWorks 3.0 desktop nearly twice the size of the one you get on a 128K Apple Ile or tlc. Perhaps the only down side to Plus- Works is its incompatibility with TimeOut: products and other AppleWorks en- hancements, but that drawback doesn’t seem to have hampered the “thousands” of registered Plus-Works users. Hajdu says that Memory Plus can set you up with the software/hardware package you need to get up and running with Apple- Works 3.0. APPLE CLINIC IS A FORUM FOR ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT APPLE IT AND MAC. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. WRITE TO APPLE CLINIC, 80 ELM STREET, PETERBOROUGH, NH 03458, AND ENCLOSE AN SASE. BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF LETTERS, HOWEVER, WE’RE UNABLE TO RESPOND TO ALL QUES- TIONS INDIVIDUALLY. “Sharp Tracer” 1. Trace Drawings — Logos — Artwork & Schematics. 2. Features 2 Power Lens with a bull's eye 3. Use with Paint — Draw & CAD-CAM programs. 4. Made of Optical Grade Acrylic. Same resin as prescription glasses. 5. A“Fun Challenge" that every one can enjoy! 6. Fits all Apple mice! Only $12.00 Premium Life Cartridges 1. Apple Imagewriter $9.00 2. Epson LQ 1000 $9.00 3. Epson LQ 2500 $9.00 4. Epson LQ 800 $9.00 5. Epson MX 100 $9.00 6. Epson MX 70 $9.00 7. IBM Proprinter 4201 $9.00 8. NEC 8023 $9.00 9. Panasonic 1080 $9.00 10. Panasonic 1124i $9.00 11. 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(version hobbyists of all stripes express their c entertaining and educational presenta- tions. So fire up your imagination and get ready to dazzle your audience as we explore two authoring systems designed specifically for 128K Apple IIs. Ges ee ae cme ion 2.7) and 1.1) let teachers, students, and ‘ativity as they produce I ran these hypermedia products on an Apple IGS and on a Mac LC II with Apple Ie Card installed. Although I also tested 5.25-inch versions of both programs, 3.5-inch versions proved pe ee er TUTOR-TECH HYPERMEDIA TOOLKIT 2.7 Techware Corp. P.O. Box 151085 Altamonte Springs, FL 32715-1085 (800) 34-REACH (407) 695-9000 * hypermedia authoring system + 128K Apple lleficilic Plus/lics/Laser 128 + $195, $35 upgrade from v2.5 + The Stack Exchange catalogue free * product support on America Online MEDIA MAGIC! 1.1 Toucan/Queue 338 Commerce Drive Fairfield, CT 06430 (800) 232-2224 (203) 335-0906 (203) 336-2481 fax * presentation software * 128K Apple lle/licilc Plus/ics + $99.95 | * $19 upgrade from v2.6 serial #39999 and below * free upgrade from v2.6 serial #40000 and above 20 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 a easier to use because they eliminated bothersome disk swapping. If a 3.5-inch drive isn’t available, you'll need two 5.25-inch drives. In either case, however, you and your audience can enjoy the software you create (called stacks or shows, depending on the program) on an Apple II with just one disk drive. If you're lucky enough to have an Echo synthesizer, you can add speech to your creations, too). DEEP IN THE STACKS Widely known in its initial versions as the first authoring system for the Apple II, Tutor-Tech Hypermedia Toolkit, like fine wine, improves with age. The latest edition adds an array of features well worth the upgrade price. Educators, especially, will like the ease with which Tutor-Tech lets you create stacks tailored to your classroom needs The standard Tutor-Tech package includes three 5.25-inch disks — the program or Teacher Disk for creating stacks, a samples disk with ready-to-use artwork and demonstration stacks, and a Student Disk — plus a spiral-bound manual and an upgrade/utility disk. A gradebook program for tracking student progress is available separately ($95) You can make one backup copy of the program, samples, and grader disks on a single 3.5-inch floppy, or you can order 15 and Techware’s dual-format package additional), which includes both 3. -inch disks. Photography * Larry Dunn The mouse is a “must” for designing stacks; a joystick is an awkward alternative at best. Students can run your creations from the keyboard alone, however. For special-needs or very young users, you can develop stacks that require only the spacebar and return key. When you boot the Teacher Disk, a set of design tools, a menu bar, and a blank work area, or page, appear on screen. The manual assumes no prior comput- ing knowledge. You don’t even have to know how to use a mouse or pull-down menus — the first chapter of the manual covers all these Mac-style features. Beginners should work through the tutorial before embarking on their own stack-building explorations, though: It provides an excellent visual tour of the hypermedia design process and teaches you how to use the program’s text and drawing tools and how to use buttons to link pages. Among Tutor-Tech 2.7’s features is a new music-writing module. Accom- panying melodies can spice up a stack, but teachers who get migraines in noisy classrooms will be happy to know they can add a command to turn off the sound. My favorite new feature is referenced pages. No longer must you copy and paste screens you want to repeat within a stack — just type a code on the new page to cross-reference it to a previously created one. This convenience saves a lot of computer memory and development time. The codes are easy to learn, too. To test-drive Tutor-Tech, for example, I created an informational stack about contemporary female mystery writers; thanks to referenced pages, other users can expand the stack easil The Tutor-Tech 2.7 update also sup- ports external commands, which, among other things, let you change directories, launch other Apple II applications, con- trol a videodisc player, or open related stacks. A new preview mode lets you browse through your stacks and see exactly what your students will be looking at. On the down side, Tutor-Tech’s fonts show no improvement; the smallest type- face is hard to read on the GS screen. Importing graphic can bring in high-resolution images directly, but you'll have to convert Print Shop and New Print Shop graphics. The is tricky, too. You manual could use an addendum describ- ing the program’s support for assorted Apple II graphics formats. SHOWTIME Captivating backgrounds, clip art, sound effects, and ready-to-use songs make Media Magic! an appealing new Apple II hypermedia product. Geared toward educators, this “Best Show and Tell Tool Ever” includes three modules. — The Show Maker, The Art Studio, and The Melody Studio — that let you create or modify music and graphics as you design your presentations. You can also import clip art and sounds from Toucan’s Creative Writing Series and illustrations from other popular programs. Media Magic! makes you feel like a movie director. Special effects provide attractive transitions between pages; you add script commands, text, buttons, and clip art via pop-up dialog boxes. Because I'm musically impaired, I especially enjoyed using the program’s prewritten songs and sound effects in a show I designed for parents’ night at a local elementary school. In addition, I created screens describ- ing the school’s history in The Art Studio module, where I could control the appearance of text best. (Hypermedia programs rarely include full-featured word processors.) I discovered that I could combine font sizes on a page, something that isn’t possible using back- ground text screens alone. inch Media Magic! comes on three 5.25 floppies (or a single 3.5-inch disk). You must store your chosen backgrounds, fonts, sounds, and clip art on the show disk, which doesn’t leave much room for a large presentation. You can save only ten screens on a 5.25-inch disk, but you can link shows stored on separate disks. Ch) poor ectric cookers to heat lunches lunch tables, reading stand office cabinet map holders er wall engravings and Media Magic! sports special effects plus predesigned graphics and music. Easy-to-use referenced pages make Tutor-Tech stacks a snap to expand. Although the documentation is well written, it’s organized strangely. For instance, the tutorial demonstrating most of the software’s features is the fourth section of the guide. It suggests that users read the reference section first, a premise that might well intimi- date novices. DIFFERENT STROKES Both Tutor-Tech stacks and Media Magic! shows support speech if your Apple II has an Echo synthesizer. The quality differs, however. In Tutor-Tech, you select the words you want to use from the 720-word dictionary supplied with the Echo unit. (Street Electronics also offers a larger dictionary with some 4000 words.) The system speaks the words in the order in which you import them into your stack; the synthesizer’s female voice is clear and of high quality. By contrast, in Media Magic! you type the words to be spoken on the back- ground text screen or in a message box, then add a speak text command to the script. If the system mispronounces any words (and it did several in the presenta- tion I created), you must edit them by typing phonetic spellings in an excep- tions box. The resulting speech is robotic- sounding and sometimes difficult to stand. You can adjust pitch and rate, but success is a matte unde: of trial and error. On the plus side, you can desig- nate words to be highlighted as the system speaks them to help young readers with visual tracking. In short, if you plan to present a lot of information and your're satisfied with simple graphics — or if you want to write music — Tutor-Tech is the program for you. The software's ability to access May 1993 * inCider/A+ * 21 VCRs, videodisc players, the Touch- Window screen, and the Muppet Learn- ing Keys alternative keyboard is a defi- nite plus for stack developers, as well. On the other hand, if special effects, pre- designed backgrounds, and ready-made clip art appeal to you, Media Magic! is the program of choice. In his inaugural address last January, President Clinton observed, “Tech- nology is almost magical.” What are you waiting for? It’s time to conjure up some creative presentations. Tutor-Tech and Media Magic! prove that you can still work wonders in only 128K. Midge Frazel Computer Resource Consultant Bridgewater, MA F” centuries, your tribe dwelt in the valley below Belchfire Mountain, an active volcano. One day an eruption destroys your village; the chief and most of the tribe’s ablest hunters are killed. As the smartest, strongest survivor, you must lead a band of 23 clan mem- bers on a search for the tribe’s ancestral homeland, somewhere to the east. It’s a race against time: Winter's coming fast and you have to find a new place to settle before snowfall makes travel impossible. To guide you, the tribe’s forebears prepared a Sacred Mapskin, which domi- nates the center of your GS screen. It’s 22 * inCider/A+ * May 1993 divided into hexagonal terrain cells that include forest, plains, mountains, river valleys, lakes, hills, and deserted villages. Grampf, the tribal clerk, maintains the Survival Rock and the Status Rock — icons that appear on the left-hand side of the screen and provide a pictorial progress report. When you hunt, your perform- ance is illustrated by stick-figure animations reminiscent of cave-wall paintings. POLI SCI 101 The game includes six scenarios of increasing difficulty. In the most chal- lenging games, the Mapskin shows largely unexplored territory, the envi- ronment is more dangerous, and food is harder to find. All scenarios — except the easiest one — include at least three randomly selected destinations, which change each time you start a new game. Each day you must decide whether to gather roots and berries, travel, rest, feast, practice spear throwing, send out scouts, or create magical carvings to boost your confidence and enhance your prestige. In addition, random events challenge you to make decisions by click- ing to select a multiple-choice option. Scanned color photos feature various members of the program’s development team, costumed as cavemen and women; these characters act out a whole range of conflicts and crises. (After a few games, the same events recur, however — a design compromise that was probably necessary to keep program size fairly reasonable.) If you make good decisions, the tribe will be happy and your leadership rating will increase. If you make enough bad decisions, though, your rating drops to zero, prompting the tribe to select another leader and banish you, ending the game. Politics hasn’t changed much in 10,000 years. THE SERIOUS SIDE By clicking on the book icon located on the right-hand side of the screen, you can view the Prehistoric Guide to Survival, an on-line reference that includes personality profiles of your companions, notes on land forms and animals you encounter, descriptions of tools and utensils, and discussions of values, customs, and rituals shared by ancient and modern tribal people. I found the Guide awkward because the screen displays only a few lines at a time and you can’t print the text. Some topics — “lost continents” and “vortex energy” to name two — could be classified as New Age fluff. Moreover, chapters on the extinction of dinosaurs and “Creationism vs. Evolution” seem inappropriate given the scope of the program. An 18-page manual includes a list of additional recommended reading and amusing line drawings of tribe members, but no screen shots. The documentation covers MS-DOS and Macintosh versions of the program; a separate two-page supplement and four-page Read.Me file on disk provide GS-specific information. The package includes three non-copy- protected 800K floppies. ‘The designers apparently worked hard to ensure that the program would run on a system with only one or two 3.5-inch drives. Some disk swapping is required, but most program files are located on one disk. You can install the game on a hard- disk drive by copying files from all three disks into a single folder requiring some 2.1 megabytes of hard-disk space in all. (To enjoy the game’s music you must have Tool035 in your System. Tools folder.) The Lost Tribe requires at least 1 megabyte of RAM. If your GS has more than that, the program uses it effectively. YABBA-DABBA Intended for players aged 8 and older, ‘The Lost Tribe can help you learn about the lives of our distant ancestors and hone map-reading, group-dynamics, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills. The program's designers seem to have successfully reconstructed the culture and beliefs of prehistoric people. The software combines an imaginative approach with solid archaeological and anthropological source material. Serious academics may object to the program’s humor, but it should appeal to an audi- ence who grew up on a steady diet of Flintstones cartoons (and vitamins). If you liked the novel Clan of the Cave Bear or the film Quest for Fire, you'll love The Lost Tribe. The program is equally suited to individual exploration, small- group interaction, or full-class participa- tion. As long as publishers keep coming up with new educational software like The Lost Tribe for the Apple IIGs, it’s premature to write off this remarkable computer as a lost cause. Mike Markowitz Pepperdine University Long Beach, CA L* long and prosper” — that’s the story of AppleWorks Classic, Bob Lissner’s integrated word processor/data- base/spreadsheet program for the Apple Il. Beagle Bros’ TimeOut series of add- ons (now distributed by Quality Computers) catapulted the original AppleWorks into a second generation. Then through the collaboration of Claris Corporation and Beagle Bros, “AppleWorks: The Third Generation” (version 3.0) was conceived, with enhancements such as spell check- ing and support for subdirectories. But the AppleWorks story isn’t over yet. Ultra 4 takes AppleWorks users — even novices — to new worlds of creative utility “where no one has gone before.” IMPROVING ON A CLASSIC Among all TimeOut products, perhaps none breathes more life into Apple- Works than Randy Brandt's UltraMacros — an easy-to-use programming lan- guage that boosts AppleWorks to new heights of power. Though some people still fear the word “programming” because it implies numbered lines and cryptic references, users who are comfortable with plug- and-play applications still often wish their programs could do a little more, especially to minimize repetitive tasks. UltraMacros lessens the need for repeated keystrokes and automates countless other tasks, as well. And the UltraMacros language is intu- itive, letting you create short programs (macros) by recording a series of key- strokes. You can then save them and play them back with a single keypress. In essence, you create customized functions without ever leaving AppleWorks. Straight out of the box, UltraMacros offers increased speed, new features, and enhanced capabilities within the Apple- Works environment. Among hundreds of other possible operations, macros cansave/print/remove all documents on the desktop automati- cally, locate a “lost” file on a hard drive, eliminate duplicate records in a data- base, provide word wrap in a spread- sheet, and even create pull-down or pop-up menus. With Ultra 4, a new UltraMacros is born. This major upgrade to Ultra- Macros 3.1 is soundly based on the origi- nal software, and you can use most earlier macros with little modification. The program disk includes a Converter module that translates UltraMacros 3.0 or 3.1 macros to Ultra 4 syntax. Some conversions require hands-on tinkering, but the program’s accompanying docu- mentation explains the process. Ultra 4 includes an installer program and an AppleWorks 3.0 Bug Patcher (version 1.6). The installation process is easy, whether you use a hard-disk drive or 3.5-inch floppies — just follow direc- tions diligently. (Pay particular attention to the Notes file.) Although you can use Ultra 4 on a 5.25-inch floppy system, the degree of disk swapping required may make the job impractical. Once installed, Ultra 4 becomes a seamless part of the AppleWorks program. You'll hardly know the macro enhancement is there — until you press the solid-apple (option) key, which acti- vates most of Ultra 4’s commands. The program installs a small set of macros automatically for immediate use, but Ultra 4 reveals its greatest power when you learn to write your own macros or to customize macros written by others. POWER TO THE PEOPLE A printed 60-page manual describes clearly, though briefly, all but the newest Ultra 4 commands, and the program disk includes more than a dozen sample files illustrating every command’s syntax and use. In all, Ultra 4 adds more than 100 impressive new functions — from changing the beep sound on the fly, to capturing the contents of an entire data- base record with a single command, to calculating big numbers to a precision of two decimal places. The program also enhances several existing UltraMacros commands, includ- ing clearing selected portions of the screen and using the Find function with the display turned off. Ultra 4 also lets you adjust the cursor’s blinking speed and use a mouse in AppleWorks. Power users will appreciate Ultra 4’s 100 text- string variables and 260 numeric vari- ables. The software also supports custom labels, task-file caching, and desktop- memory commands. Moreover, Ultra 4 supports an expand- able library of INITs. These small pro- grams modify AppleWorks automatically at startup, including date-and-time display, enhanced Open apple-H (screen dump) printing, screen blanking, and powerful debugging for fine-tuning your macros. The program also offers a special TimeOut application, Macros-to- Menus, which converts any macro task file to a TimeOut application that will then appear on the TimeOut menu. Whatever your line of work, whatever your productivity needs, if you use AppleWorks regularly, you can benefit from UltraMacros. And once you've tried Ultra 4, you’ll never be content with plain-vanilla AppleWorks again. Randy Brandt’s latest creation not only enhances AppleWorks’ functionality, but opens a gateway to nearly unlimited expansion of this powerful program. Will Nelken Author, UltraAWsome Macros SE, ULTRA-AppleWorks, and Ultra — to the Max! San Rafael, CA Editors’ note: At press time, inCider/A+ learned that Randy Brandt has created an updated version of the software, Ultra 4.2, and that he has sold exclusive distribution rights for the program to Quality Computers, 20200 East Nine Mile Road, Box 665, St. Clair Shores, MI 48080, (313) 774-7200 (price undetermined at press time). May 1993 ® inCider/A+ + 23 MUST BUY! FORGET IT WORTH A SECOND LOOK @D Assessaas Lexia Learning Systems 11a Lewis St. P.O. Box 466 Lincoin, MA 01773 (800) 435-3942, (617) 259-8752 + new diagnostics software * 48K Apple II * $150 each When students greet you with blank stares, perhaps they're missing the point of the lesson. Call on Assess for help — it's a series of diagnostic oral- reading tests for the early elementary grades. It measures reading strengths and weaknesses by analyzing student performance; teachers can print reports for individual tests, class standings, or the results of all tests administered to a single student over time. The package includes several sets of questions to facilitate retest- ing. Assess simplifies skill diagnostics because the computer handles the details — word lists, scoring, inter- pretation of results, and report print- ing. Teachers will find it a valuable (albeit expensive) supplementary evalu- ation tool. @® $coLcece cost EXPLORER 1993 College Board Publications P.O. Box 886 New York, NY 10101 (800) 323-7155 orders (212) 713-8165 customer service * update/information database * 128K Apple II or 64K Apple lle with extended 80-column card * $125 plus $2.95 handling It’s never too soon to start saving for your child's college education. College Cost Explorer makes the job a bit easier. The 1992-93 edition provides information on tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, trans- portation, and personal expenses at 2800 accredited two-year and four- year academic institutions. You enter personal financial data on electronic worksheets to calculate costs; the program projects the expected family contribution. An interactive tutorial advises you on financial aid (availability, application requirements, deadlines). This is an invaluable resource for any- one interested in determining college costs and how to meet them. <@™p ESL DEMONS SETS A, B,C Merit Audio Visual 132 West 21st St. New York, NY 10011 (800) 753-6488, (212) 675-8567 * new language skills builder + 512K Apple Il * requires 5.25” disk drive + $99.95 each ESL Demons helps students of English as a second language develop their reading skills. Students examine sen- tences for errors of grammar, usage, and spelling; they earn a star for each inappropriate word or phrase they find, Around consists of 12 sentences, each containing an error students must correct. The program provides explanations for all errors, even when youngsters tag them correctly. Set A is designed for students who have mastered only some English conversa- tional skills. Set B is for experienced beginners moving on to second-level work. Set C targets low-intermediate students. All sets ship on two disks with 12 ESL Demons (topics) per disk. The program tracks performance for up to 42 students. There are no animated graphics, sound effects, or games — just the slow, methodical delivery of text-based sentences. Activities may not be interesting enough to hold kids’ attention. @® GRANVILLE Gessler Publishing Co. 55 West 13th St. Sth Floor New York, NY 10011 (212) 627-0099 * new French-language program * 64K Apple I! * requires color monitor * hardcopy diary with accents requires Epson printer * $39.95 Nothing is quite as intimidating as going on vacation to a place where you THE APPLE I] REPORT can't speak the local language. How do you find out where to stay or what to see? Granville prepares youngsters for a vacation in France as it sends players on a five-day, all-expenses-paid simu- lated holiday. Visitors receive free hotel accommodations, breakfast, and spending money. They must plan their ‘own entertainment and sight-seeing activities (visiting museums, local shops, discotheques, and so on), while attending to basic needs like hunger and thirst. The program presents instructions initially in English, but shifts quickly to French. Accompanying documentation contains instructions, lesson plans, and sample worksheets in English. Granville suffers from seer ingly endless disk swapping, but it’s a wonderful electronic supplement for any intermediate-level French class, stimulating discussion while reinforcing basic vocabulary. Bonnes vacances! @D READING SKILLS FOR DAILY LIVING SETS 1, 2,3 Merit Audio Visual 132 West 21st St. New York, NY 10011 (800) 753-6488, (212) 675-8567 * new reading-skills builder * 512K Apple Il * requires 5.25" drive + $199 per set With this electronic primer, upper-level high-school students can practice essential reading skills. The software consists of high-interest text passages focusing on everyday situations such as money management, community life, health care, and shopping. It streng- thens students’ abilities to recognize central thoughts, recall facts, place events in sequence, make inferences, and draw conclusions. Each activity offers two levels of difficulty. All sets in the series follow the same format: Students read an on-scr